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As I said at the start, the cameras were only fitted where there was a reasonable suspicion of a crime, not left on all the time, just when the crime was suspected to occur. No security system I ever worked on connected the cameras with the internet, all were locally recorded as evidence. It is a extremely rare occurance that they were required anywhere, but for the shop floor and the internal cash office. As for drug dealers, all maintenance men, in all our stores, were instructed to regularly remove the blanking panels behind toilets (and under sinks) and look for "foreign substances and objects" as some drug dealers had taken to storing their stash there. They were meeting people out in the car park and then going to the loo to complete the deal. If you know how, those panels can be very quickly and quietly removed. I have not heard of cameras in the disabled Loos, which doesn't mean it hasn't happend. I have prevented managers having shelves removed, which were meant for the placement of bags attached to catheters.(especially as we had a member of staff who needed it.). I have never seen signs refering to individual placement of cameras, they are always on the outside saying there are cameras in use at this store. Whilst the law may have changed since I was moving these cameras around, I have read elsewhere ( but I can't find the reference) that the Instruction on the government web site for signs is not backed up by a law. As for the having to register with ICO I would bet that the big chains have a blanket registration saying simply to prevent stock loss and theft by criminals, not individual placement registrations.

if I buy another boat, I won't need to by chocolates for Valentines.....

I suspect that with Uncle Albert knowing how to set the boat up for sailing, that Comrade kept her rig, even with being fitted an engine. Why waste money on diesel when wind is for free..

The legal definintion of a peeping tom is roughly that the person is CHOOSING to look for THEIR OWN gratification. Otherwise every policeman on investigation work, say reviewing peadophile tapes, would have to be arrested. The fact that you see on camera or in real life, parts of a human body as an incidental fact of your required work or by accident is not illegal. Over the years of sailing on the broads there is no part of the human body I have not seen (unfortunately in most cases) and that probably goes for the many on here, should they all be arrested? Grace there would be No point asking if there are cameras, A, The floor staff generally do not know where they are. B, If you ask a manager, They may not know, They may not tell you, they may say there aren't and there are. They may say there are, and there aren't. or they may just say they don't know...

Yup and the fact I was sailing in ever decreasing circles on Sunday...

There is no legal requirement to inform the customer, as that would somewhat defeat the object. The only time I have heard of (but not involved with) the customer toilet cameras was at the request of the police to do with drug dealing. I was about to install a camera in staff toilets, when the suspect was caught anyway, so I didn't have to do it. You do see signs around saying there a security cameras fitted, But there is no legal requirement to do so, but there is a recommendation that you do so. Many places that say there are security cameras actually don't have them, they just buy the signs .... it 's cheaper. Saying that I was in a Lowestoft craft shop last week there appeared to be no less than 6 cameras in a very small place, and from what I know they looked real. Cameras being viewed by staff of changing rooms / toilets, would normally be done from tape and would not normally be by a security guard. But by a manager of the appropriate sex or with a member of the appropriate sex present.

I was for a while responsible for moving security cameras around in a supermarket chain, most chains have one or more over the till areas, some have them over every till. It is not just to check on staff, but has been used to catch the odd customer trying some trick at the tills. There are also cameras in High value areas , AND can be installed in toilets and Changing rooms where there is reasonable suspicion of crime and there is no sexual intent (by those viewing) , Toilet cameras (staff or public) are normally fitted in the roof so the least body parts are visable.

we've had one primrose plant (wild variety) flowering in out garden since before Christmas, the others are still keeping their heads down...

Or St Georges is available over the net, At the packed club house in Horning on Saturday night we had, Old Poulteney, Speyside, Glen Moray, Laphroaig, plus all the usual Burns night festivities and meal. a very good night was had by all.....

Black beret, Royal tank Regiment? Grandad was RSM of 7th RTR during WW2. I'd definately agree with JennyMorgan writing his memoirs..

I'll be raising a glass and remembering Iain on Saturday night at Snowflake Sailing Clubs Burns night Dinner (fully kilted up of course). where will be said the Selkirk Grace, Some hae meat and canna eat, and some wad eat that want it, but we hae meat and we can eat, and sae the Lord be thankit.

You shouldn't have any problem here's a video http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=video+boat+reversing+norfolk+broads&qpvt=video+boat+reversing+norfolk+broads&view=detail&mid=6677EEACAA6E94EE984B6677EEACAA6E94EE984B&FORM=VRDGAR I hope it's the right one that comes up..

Welcome from another loon who came to the broads after reading Swallows and Amazons, Only I read S+A 50 years ago, moved here First in the RAF 40 years ago, before they sent me away again and finally moored Here permanently 18 years ago. I moved here the final time from.... Milton Keynes (Stantonbury) and so have also been to the OU lunatic asylum many times as a student. I was also on the committee of Dovecot, Now Haversham sailing club at one point and was a member when we moved to Haversham.. We had buoyancy aids for our collies, the handle on the back is very useful!!!! Oh I have a motorboat and spend most Sundays sailing in ever decreasing circles at Horning, we appear to have had parallel lives if some what time separated.

Jenny Morgan, Proof measurements are a very old measure and 100% alcohol is 175% proof. It's to do with gunpowder soaked in alcohol, a dangerous mix if ever I heard of one!! Your Polish spirit would therefore be about 55% alcohol, which is near enough the same alcohol content as Pussers Gunpowder, look out Timbo!!! My better half doesn't drink, a much cheaper option, fewer bar bills and no need to pay for a taxi....

Like the one where they shown how to use the indicators, drove out of the showroom straight into the wall opposite, used the indicators but not the steering wheel.....

A friend in Saudi was in charge of the Kings bus (more like a motor home with gold plated everything). anyway it's in the MT yard having a bit of a service by the lone Brit my friend. The king didn't trust the locals. So it's sat there with all the side panels up local Saudi comes along and starts playing with the various levers and controls. My friend asks him to stop , Saudi says, I'm Saudi you can't tell me what to do, and promptly pulls a lever, and dumps the entire blue and brown contents all over himself. Friend has to walk away as he could not be seen laughing at a Saudi, didn't stop all the Saudis in there laughing though. Another friend in Saudi reported to the doctor about various spots he had coming up, Doc says Iv'e only seen this with Toilet cleaning labourers. Jingly(far eastern labourer paid in small change) loses job making tea for everyone.... he also cleaned the loos....

We have 15 radiators, the house was previously owned by the parents of an area manager for a gas company!! the house has single brick walls. Back in about 2000, I tried putting the room temperature thermostat on 21C permanently in the winter . That gave us a gas bill for over £200 for one month!!!! I've actually temporarily put in a mechanical timer, as part of the bodge they bypassed the electronic temperature / timer, which meant the boiler was only switching off when maximum water temperature was reached. The house was getting hotter and hotter. So we were manually switching on and off, but when we went away for a week we needed to find a way of stopping frying or freezing the house.

We have a faulty gas boiler supplied by a gas tank. it took two evenings of phoning around even to find someone to come out then it took 2 weeks for them to come (but they did come when they made the appointment) . So called "national " companies always said they had no one in our area. They've bodged it so we have heating, we are still awaiting a proper repair so we get hot water, luckily we have a shower in the mobile home in the garden. But at least we haven't paid anything yet, So we already owe them £120 and have a fixed price quote including the £120 for less than I expected. We await developments...

The photo is not mine but off of the net , I wasn't around that far back! but as far as I could see it's an historic photo well out of ownership. There are photos around showing similar baskets where the carriers are definately wearing post 1945 clothing. There are also pictures of two of those baskets being carried one each side of a pony. (must have been a rich crofter)

Romanes eunt domus or Romani ite domum be correct for Romans go home, yes I had to look it up, I'm not that good at English let alone the French they tried to teach me... and my memory for the film is even worse.....

Having had a re read of your web site and notes above I'd point out basket such as used by the ladies above, could be made very quickly with preprepared materials, the skilled basket weaver could probably make well into double figures per day. Similarly the preparation of huge piles of materials for their construction, could be quite quick. Therefore I find that 3d for a basket quite expensive! Probably though, much of the broads tree cover had been cleared by then (for fuel !) and the baskets of what ever type were brought in from some distance. As to the the picture of the couple shifting hay, that is also possible, though for peat I'd suspect that shoulder straps to take the weight off of the hands would be very likely. Additionally although a great number of the lochs in the Hebridies will be natural, it would be interesting to find out how many are man made. The tree cover was destroyed by man hundreds, if not thousands of years ago, so peat cutting there has been going on a very long time...

I'd agree wheel barrows are unlikely as peat ground anywhere is soft, and they won't have laid planks because they were an expensive labour intensive item to make in those days. Laying stone or the like doesn't work because it just sinks in the peat. As you can see from the picture of south Uist the island on which I went to school, the land is just as soggy if not more so than the broads, and the rainfall much much heavier!! And a picture of North Uist

Reading through the thread, reminds of my School days in the Outer Hebrides (1971 -1975), where the sgoil kids got on the bus for sgoil, but the bus driver stopped in the middle of nowhere, on the way to let off the kids to go peat (Moine) cutting. The reference to 3 foot long turves seems excessive as they would be likely to break when moving them around, my thoughts are that the 3ft is the "spit cut" by the spade but the 3 ft would have been cut into two or three for ease of transport. The report earlier about baskets to be carried by 2 men between poles, I would have thought more likely to be baskets on the back / shoulders of the one person at a time transporting them. A common method of transport of goods in those days, Two people carring something between them across rough ground / planks on to boats, is much more difficult than two people carrying individual baskets. Also you can carry much more on the back than in your hands and newly cut peat is wet and heavy... Note that peat cutting was often a two stage move, cut, place on bank for a week or two for the water to drain , then move to your property / final drying area. Here is how they did it in the Hebridies, after the inital couple of weeks on the moor drying, until recent times, post ww2, note the turf size. ( I suspect the pile on top is a little exagerated for the camera) Peat cutting is recorded into the late 1800 on the broads, and I would have thought it probably went on till at least the 1st world war, and in some local areas, people may well have cut some during the shortages of WW2, (maybe without permission, so no records)....

Waved to those on board moored on Horning staithe, I could see, two gentlemen and Labrador, that was during one of the earlier laps of the course. Then had a short chat to those on board, (well one having a fag out the back) as we drifted past in a Yeoman yesterday in the rain /drizzle on a later lap... Then they set off up river between races....

Unusual for a defender, they're normally stolen and broken up for parts. A Defender being a big meccano set you can fit almost any part to any Series (except series 1) or post series LandRover, any so from 1958 to 2016. Unless you've go a Series One or early series 2 which are worth a fortune these days, then any after that, most are often worth more in parts than a complete vehicle. Even my 35 year old LandRover 110 is going up in value!!!